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After the madness of the first days under contract, I thought the next seven days would be quieter. Au contraire, my dear! Things haven’t slowed down, we’ve just become more accustom to the stress. Thank God for Chip and Joanna Gaines. (And Hulu!) via GIPHY […]

The last few weeks can be described in one word: chaos. I guess in most places in America, closing on a house is a 60 or 90-day process. In Denver, closing is 20 days and even less if you are paying cash. We negotiated a […]

What a week it’s been! This week was not at all what I expected going under contract was going to be. The initial call from our agent saying that our offer had been accepted was surreal. I’ve displayed more emotion finding out that grass-fed beef […]

We bought a house! We bought a house! We bought a house! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! What Fury and I looked like this weekend via GIPHY Okay, technically we didn’t buy anything yet. We had an offer accepted on a house – but still. We […]

It’s April y’all. To be honest, I thought we would have a house by now. You could not have told six-months-ago me that it would have taken this long. I would have regaled you with stories about how I’m historically ahead of the curve on […]

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